More accidental tautonyms.

More accidental tautonyms. Curl'd minion min��ion?n.1. An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.2. A subordinate official.3. One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling. , dancer, coiner of sweet words! ~ Matthew Arnold log*o*dae*da*ly ..." arbitrary or capricious coinage of words~ Merriam-Webster Tautonyms--i.e., words, phrases, etc. whose spelling istautological--are of two kinds: terms such as froufrou frou��froualso frou-frou ?n.1. Fussy or showy dress or ornamentation.2. A rustling sound, as of silk.[French, of imitative origin.] and Pago Pago,which were fashioned from two or more identical subunits, and terms suchas hotshots and valval, which were not. In the first group, tautological tau��tol��o��gy?n. pl. tau��tol��o��gies1. a. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.b. An instance of such repetition.2. spelling is automatic, while in the second group its occurrence is amatter of chance. The term "heterologous heterologous/het��er��ol��o��gous/ (het?er-ol��ah-gus)1. made up of tissue not normal to the part.2. xenogeneic.het��er��ol��o��gousadj.1. tautonyms"(heterologous means "consisting of different elements") mightbe a good name for the latter group, were it not for the fact that someof its members (e.g., testes, tsetse tsetse/tset��se/ (tset��se) an African fly of the genus Glossina, which transmits trypanosomiasis. tsetsean African fly of the genus glossina, which transmits trypanosomiasis. ) appear to be unitary in structure,and not compounds at all. In the November 2008 Word Ways, Jeff Grantdubbed the second group "accidental tautonyms" in his articleof the same name, in which he listed some five dozen existing or coinedexamples of such words. The present article, which proposes to take upwhere Grant's leaves off in the coinage of "accidental"tautonyms, is indebted to him for both its topic and for his nicely aptname for these interesting artifacts. In his article, Grant remarked that readers could surely add to hislist of examples of accidental tautonyms, and such is indeed the case.On the logical premise that if dozens of examples were good, hundredsmore can be no worse, this paper considerably augments his collection.There are some significant differences in our approaches, however. Forone, whereas Grant's listing encompasses everything fromdictionary-attested terms to his personal coinages, mine restrictsitself to more or less novel coinages, eschewing any words known by meto be entries in any print dictionary. This was done, in part, to avoidhaving to deal with definitions, which would not only have immenselybloated the article but which are also, in my opinion, generallysuperfluous in the case of logological coinages. After all, who needsanother's assistance to imagine fitting definitions forspeciously-formulated words that have no established meanings and whichwere not coined in response to any real need? Readers can doubtlessshift well enough for themselves in this regard, the only caveat beingthat where a word element has more than one meaning, its intendedmeaning may sometimes be a less common one. In the coinage prigsprigs,for example, "prig" is meant to refer to the thief or pilfererof British slang; hence, a "prigsprig" might plausibly be,say, some small wooden implement of a kind typically used by thieves. In the course of inventing such coinages, one encounters noscarcity of potential lexical building blocks; the trick is to findcombinations that make some sort of semantic sense. Having found such acombination, the next question is how it ought to be written--solidly,or with a hyphen, or simply left as two words. Although solidconstructions were always preferred, there were nonetheless severalcases in which hyphens seemed requisite, and a great many others inwhich no joining together at all seemed justified. Consequently, thefollowing listing is divided into three major categories:solidly-written tautonyms, hyphenated tautonyms, and tautonymic phrases. JIM JimMiss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn]See : Escape PUDER Saratoga, California jamespuder@juno.com